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Emblems of desire : selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève / edited and translated by Richard Sieburth.
- Title
- Emblems of desire : selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève / edited and translated by Richard Sieburth.
- Author
- Scève, Maurice, active 16th century.
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Sieburth, Richard
- Description
- 224 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Emblems of Desire is a representative selection of lyrics drawn from the 449 dizains that make up Maurice Sceve's book-length cycle of poems known as the Delie, first published in 1544. Often considered a sixteenth-century Mallarme because of the radiant obscurity of his verse, Sceve emerges in these translations as a poet whose wry love poetry also makes him a contemporary of such English metaphysicals as Donne or of a postmodern master of obliqueness like Ashbery. This edition includes the fifty allegorical woodcuts that illustrated the original edition. The interplay of the poems and their visual emblems adds further ironic resonance to this echo chamber in which self and other hear only their own misdirected desires."--book jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Délie. Selections. English & French
- Alternative Title
- Délie.
- Note
- Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-224).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780977857654 (pbk.)
- 0977857654 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007060764
- OCLC
- 122425269
- SCSB-11247929
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library